Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080297684 | Backlight apparatus and display apparatus using same - A backlight apparatus has a housing composed of a first frame and a second frame, each having a side wall, put together, an optical guide plate housed in the housing, and a reflector inserted between the side surface of the light guide plate and the side wall of the housing. A reflector guide is formed on the side wall of the housing, and has a tilted surface tilted toward an insertion direction of the reflector. | 12-04-2008 |
20090091684 | LAMP UNIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A lamp unit for a liquid crystal display device includes a cold cathode lamp, a lamp cable, a lamp socket and a lamp reflector. The lamp cable is electrically connected to the cold cathode lamp to supply electric power to the cold cathode lamp. The lamp socket supports the cold cathode lamp and has a holder portion holding the lamp cable. The lamp reflector houses the cold cathode lamp and the lamp socket and has a bottom plate, front and rear plates that extend from the bottom plate and a pair of support tabs that extends from lateral end portions of the front and rear plates to sandwich the holder portion of the lamp socket therebetween. | 04-09-2009 |
20090091688 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULE - A liquid crystal module includes a liquid crystal panel, a lamp unit, a light guide plate, a rear frame and a light reflecting sheet. The lamp unit is configured to emit light. The light guide plate is configured to guide the light emitted by the lamp unit, and has a peripheral face. The rear frame is disposed rearward of the light guide plate, and has a facing portion facing a part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate. The light reflecting sheet is disposed between the light guide plate and the rear frame, and has a tab portion that is sandwiched between the part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate and the facing portion of the rear frame. | 04-09-2009 |
20110086153 | BUNCHY FRESH NOODLES USED AS INSTANT NOODLES - An object of the present invention is to provide a bundle of fresh noodles useful as ingredient noodles of instant noodles which become less-wavy, straight noodles when the instant noodles are cooked with hot water, while maintaining an existing manufacturing line as much as possible and without using any special additive. | 04-14-2011 |
20110129582 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING INSTANT NOODLES - The present invention provides a method for producing instant noodles having fresh noodle-like texture and flavor and having an excellent reconstitution property even if the noodles are thick. In the present invention, superheated steam flow is directly sprayed to raw noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds such that a temperature of superheated steam to which surfaces of the noodle strings are exposed becomes 125 to 220° C., the noodle strings are supplied with moisture using water or hot water, the noodle strings are further steamed by directly spraying the superheated steam flow to the noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds and/or steamed by using non-superheated steam, and the noodle strings are dried to produce the instant noodles. | 06-02-2011 |
20110138636 | APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND EJECTING NOODLES, AND NOODLE SCRAPER - An apparatus for cutting and ejecting noodles, includes: the pair of cutting blade rolls at which a plurality of toroidal-groove sections is formed, the cutting blade rolls cutting a noodle band and ejecting a plurality of noodles, the plurality of toroidal-groove sections having two or more depths, and the plurality of toroidal-groove sections being formed so as to be alternately or sequentially arrayed; a noodle scraper constituted of a plate body having a bent section extending along a longitudinal direction, the noodle scraper including a plurality of scraping tines formed in a comb form, the scraping tines being provided at one of long sides of the plate body and engaged with each of the toroidal-groove sections; a guide section disposed under the noodle scraper, transporting a plurality of the noodles that are dropped from the cutting blade rolls; and a feeding conveyer disposed under the guide section, feeding the plurality of noodles, wherein each scraping tine includes a tine-edge section, the plurality of tine-edge sections are engaged with the plurality of toroidal-groove sections at a front position and a rear position in a circumferential direction of the cutting blade rolls, in accordance with the depths of the toroidal-groove sections engaged with the scraping tines. | 06-16-2011 |
20110138979 | APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OUT NOODLE - An apparatus for cutting out noodle is provided, which can prevent damage to scraping teeth of a scraper and prevent noodle threads from being caught at a fixing position of the scraper. The apparatus includes a housing, a first roller having a first receiving portion, a second roller having a second receiving portion, a first scraper secured at a first fixing position and having first scraping teeth inserted in the first receiving portion, a second scraper having second scraping teeth, a third scraper secured at a second secured position and having third scraping teeth, and a fourth scraper having fourth scraping teeth. The first and third scrapers include first and second transfer holes, respectively. The first fixing position is located more outwardly in HX direction than a second tooth tip, and the third fixing position is located more outwardly in HX direction than a fourth tooth tip. | 06-16-2011 |
20110151697 | LAMP SOCKET AND LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULE - A lamp socket includes a socket body, first and second lamp support components and first and second wire support components. The socket body has a wiring through-hole that is disposed at a middle part of the socket body in a longitudinal direction of the socket body. The first and second lamp support components are disposed at end parts of the socket body in the longitudinal direction of the socket body, respectively. The first and second wire support components are disposed between the first and second lamp support components. The first wire support component has a first upper face that longitudinally extends between the first lamp support component and the wiring through-hole. The second wire support component has a second upper face that longitudinally extends between the second lamp support component and the wiring through-hole. | 06-23-2011 |
20120207897 | INSTANT NOODLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for producing instant noodles which have an excellent reconstitution property and excellent taste and texture and can be reconstituted by pouring boiling water even if the noodles are thicker than before. In the method for producing the instant noodles, a noodle belt is extremely strongly rolled out once or more at a rolling rate of 60% or higher in a noodle belt rolling step, raw noodle strings are obtained from the noodle belt, superheated steam is sprayed to the obtained raw noodle strings, moisture is supplied or not supplied to the noodle strings, the noodle strings are steamed by saturated steam or superheated steam or are boiled to realize gelatinization, and the noodle strings are dried after the gelatinization. | 08-16-2012 |
20120288607 | INSTANT NOODLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Instant noodles are produced, which have an excellent reconstitution property, can be reconstituted by pouring of boiling water even if the noodles are thicker than before, and have excellent taste and texture. The instant noodles are produced by: making raw noodle strings each having a multilayer structure including three or more layers; spraying superheated steam to the raw noodle strings; gelatinizing the noodle strings to which the superheated steam has been sprayed; and drying the noodle strings which have been gelatinized. It is preferable to gelatinize the noodle strings by spraying the superheated steam to the noodle strings, supplying moisture in liquid form to the noodle strings, and further heating the noodle strings by using the superheated steam and/or saturated steam. | 11-15-2012 |
20130059046 | INSTANT NOODLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention obtains instant noodles which do not cause sticking and are easily loosened. Especially, the present invention provides an instant noodles producing method capable of preventing the sticking of the noodle strings even when the noodle strings are straight-type noodles. In a production process of the instant noodles, powdered oil is applied to the surface of a dough sheet or the surfaces of the noodle strings before steaming. Especially, after the powdered oil is applied to the dough sheet. the dough sheet is rolled out once or more. With this, the powdered oil is firmly fixed to the surfaces of the noodle strings. Thus, an extremely high sticking preventing effect can be obtained by an extremely small amount of the powdered oil. | 03-07-2013 |
20130251875 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FRIED NOODLES - Fried noodles of excellent quality that are approximately 1 to 7 cm in length can be produced efficiently by a process for production of fried noodles including: a step of preparing raw noodles; a step of gelatinizing the raw noodles; a step of cutting the gelatinized raw noodles into noodles of 1 to 7 cm; and a step of frying the cut noodles by allowing the same to naturally float in frying oil. | 09-26-2013 |
20140030406 | BUNCHY FRESH NOODLES USED AS INSTANT NOODLES - Provided is a bundle of fresh noodles which become less-wavy, straight noodles when the instant noodles are cooked with hot water, while maintaining an existing manufacturing line as much as possible. The noodle strings are stacked on a conveyor such that adjacent noodle strings are in a non-parallel state and each noodle string bends to have a substantially spiral shape. The plurality of noodle strings are arranged to overlap one another and form a substantially flat bundle of noodle strings. Each of the noodle strings forming fresh noodles bends and repeatedly forms loops on the conveyor. The loops are arranged to be sequentially shifted in a direction opposite a conveyance direction of the conveyor. | 01-30-2014 |
20150017299 | NOODLE-STEAMING METHOD AND NOODLE-STEAMING DEVICE - A method of steaming a bunch of noodle strings using a noodle strings steaming device including a conveyer on which the bunch of noodle strings is placed after being cut out and that transports the bunch of noodle strings, and a tunnel type of body portion provided so that the bunch of noodle strings passes through the body portion with the transportation of the conveyer includes a process of carrying the cut-out bunch of noodle strings from an entrance portion of the body portion while transporting the cut-out bunch of noodle strings on the conveyer, steaming for a predetermined period of time by supplying steam to the bunch of noodle strings, steaming the bunch of noodle strings without supplying the steam, and then transporting the bunch of noodle strings to an exit portion, and a noodle strings steaming device performs the above method. | 01-15-2015 |